Anna Nicole Smith

Anna Nicole Smith, real name Vickie Lynn Marshall, was born on 28th November 1967. She become Playboy Playmate of the Year 1993. She modeled for Guess jeans and starred in The Anna Nicole Show, her own reality TV show.

In October 1991, Smith met elderly oil billionaire J. Howard Marshall and they began a relationship. During their two-year relationship, he reportedly lavished gifts on her and asked her to marry him several times.

On 3rd February 1993, she divorced her husband Billy in Houston.

On 27th June 1994, Smith, 26, and Marshall, 89, married in Houston which resulted in a great deal of gossip about her marrying him for his money. Though she reportedly never lived with him, Smith maintained that she loved her husband, and age did not matter to her.

On 4th August 1995, 13 months after their marriage, Marshall died in Houston.

On 7th September 2006, Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, Smith’s daughter, was born at Doctors Hospital in Nassau, Bahamas. The Bahamian birth certificate recorded the father as Howard K. Stern.

On 10th September 2006, Daniel Wayne Smith, Smith’s 20-year-old son, in his mother’s hospital room while visiting her and his newborn sister. She was devastated over her son’s death. Daniel was without question the most important person in Anna’s life.

On February 8, 2007, Smith was found unresponsive in room 607 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.

On 8th February 2007, She checked into the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, on Monday with her lawyer and boyfriend, Howard K. Stern. Smith was found unresponsive in room 607 and was announced died at a South Florida hospital after being discovered unconscious in her hotel room.

On April 10, 2007, a Bahamanian judge ruled Larry Birkhead, a former boyfriend, as the father of Dannielynn. DNA tests had confirmed Birkhead as the father.

Here is a video, a tribute to Anna Nicole Smith: